Freebase. Knowledge database number 2 - here people, places, events and all kinds of other things are collected and provided as a structured database with query via service. Just like DBPedia, I found this through the Quepy project.
Archive 11. September 2013
wiki.dbpedia.org : About. Also interesting - here Wikipedia is searched and evaluated for structured information. So, in a way, a Wikipedia for machines is created from the Wikipedia for humans. The whole thing is then pre-packaged with a query language and a suitable web service.
Quepy: A Python framework to transform natural language questions to queries.. Cool - you can feed English questions into it and the system forms a structured query from them and then provides answers from Freebase or DBPedia. Quepy is the part that formulates the query from the natural language. So to speak, something like Wolfram Alpha if you only look at the knowledge queries.
Tweak Mode for Processing. This makes the sketch interactive while it is running - in one window the code runs with output, in the other window is the code. Drag with the mouse on numerical constants and the values change up or down and the output updates automatically accordingly. Nice idea.